EA Shies Away From Wii U Development

Wii U owners won't be playing games from EA's upcoming
portfolio anytime soon, as a spokesman has revealed the company currently isn't
working on any projects for Nintendo's console.

"We have no games in
development for the Wii U currently," EA's Jeff Brown told
Kotaku. The news comes after recent announcements that both Battlefield
4 and Madden
25 will be skipping Nintendo's system, and while Kotaku states that Brown
didn't rule out the possibility of EA developing more Wii U titles in the
future, it's hard not to interpret this as a bad sign for Nintendo.

EA promised continued
Wii U support after last year's E3, and released a special
edition of Mass Effect 3 for the system, but not the more-recent
DLC. EA also released a Wii U version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted in March with some
exclusive features. Now it appears EA has no desire to bring the rest of
its current-gen titles to the Wii U, and we can't imagine the company's
next-gen titles will be any easier to port to the console based on the horsepower we expect the PS4 and next Xbox to offer developers. Recently, EA DICE's technical director confirmed on Twitter that Frostbite 3 is not currently running on the Wii U.

EA is shafting Nintendo because it's all about money. Remember when that developer from Vavle trash the PS3 because it had an low insalle base back then, then apolgize when the PS3 made money. It's gonna happen to EA, when Wii U makes money they will be crawling back.

I bet anything that the reason why EA is backing off of Wii U development is because Nintendo is going to claim al revenue from YT videos. With Nintendo doing that, YouTubers who make their living off of making YT videos will no longer make videos of Nintendo games and those YTers will probably move to another console. With that in mind EA games will get no recognition for the Wii U on YT so EA sees no point in supporting the Wii U.
This is good news. Nintendo has dug their own grave and they just keep piling more dirt on their own grave.

i heard they were actually in development making Sim City for WiiU, but they couldn't break it. it actually worked!!! EA was all NO WAYYY SCREW NINTENDOOOO WE ONLY RELEASE GARBAGE, TAKE OUR CUSTOMERS MONEY, AND DON'T OFFER REFUNDS ON BROKEN GAMES

With all of Nintendo's "motion control" and "iPad as a controller" gimmicks is it any surprise 3rd parties are abandoning them? You can have 1 team program a game and then have the same team port it to Xbox, PC and PS3 pretty easily. You practically need an entirely seperate team to develope the same game for the WiiU AND they need to figure out a way to incorporate Nintendo's crazy control scheme. All this work for a system with stalled hardware sales and no guarantee you'll that they'll even make their cost back. I'm actually surprised major 3rd party publishers stuck with the Wii favor as long as they did.

There are many possible reasons for EA to not develop for the Wii U. The most prominent I've seen are "it's not 'next gen'" and "it's too expensive." Fact is it's because EA's throwing a tantrum. They led the third party charge, so to speak, last year proclaiming openly "It is the first next-generation platform coming out so we're really supporting it.” – Frank Gibeau, EA. They originally had a very tight partnership with Nintendo last year, before Nintendo turned down their proposal to exclusively run Origin. I attribute EA's refusal to support the Wii U to this.

Stories like these make me wonder just how long Nintendo can continue to rely on their 1st party titles. Loyal fans who grew up with NES, Super NES and 64 grew attached to Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Etc. due to the fact that those consoles were (arguably) the best of their time. Everyone wanted a Nintendo. Growing up, my mom would yell at me for playing too much "Nintendo", even if I was on the Xbox or PS2 at the time. You don't really see this anymore.
Although I'm positive that many young children still play and enjoy Mario and Nintendo games, most of the children that I have been around who are in the k through 4th grade range are spending their alotted gaming time on Angry Birds, Minecraft and Cut the Rope. Nintendo makes a lot of money off of nostalgia, and I think that they should be worried that younger gamers may not grow up with the same warm and fuzzy feelings towards Nintendo characters that many kids of the 80's/90's felt and still feel. Nintendo might want to seriously think about releasing iphone/ipad games with Nintendo characters to ensure they still maintain mindshare.

Only thing keeping Nintendo up now is the 3DS. Nintendo will be fine though, as long as they release more quality Mario/Zelda/Metroid offerings. I would probably buy a system if they had those and maybe a Wii U Fire Emblem game.